HMS Catterick
Type III Hunt-class destroyer
Service
- as HMS Catterick12 June 1942 — in service1,178 days of the war
- as HHMS Hastings - ΒΠ ΧέιστινγκςMay 1946 — 1963
- Name
- HMS Catterick
- Pennant / hull number
- L81
- Builder
- Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness
- Ordered
- 4 July 1940
- Laid down
- 1 March 1941
- Launched
- 22 November 1941
- Commissioned
- 12 June 1942
- Decommissioned
- 1963
- Fate
- Broken up for scrap at Piraeus
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 1,050 long tons (1,067 t)
- Displacement, full load
- 1,490 long tons (1,514 t)
- Length
- 85.34 m (280 ft) OA
- Beam
- 9.45 m (31 ft)
- Draught
- 2.13 m (7 ft)
- Speed
- 27 knots (50 km/h, 31.1 mph)
- Range
- 3,700 nmi (6,852 km)
- Complement
- 168
- Main gun
- 102 mm (4 in)
HMS Catterick was a Type III Hunt-class destroyer, operated by the Royal Navy. She carried the pennant number L81. Vickers-Armstrongs, Barrow-in-Furness laid her keel on 1 March 1941. She entered service on 12 June 1942, having been launched on 22 November 1941.
Displacement was 1,050 long tons standard and 1,490 long tons at full load. She measured 85.3 m (280 ft) long with a beam of 9.4 m (31 ft). Her designed speed was 27 knots, and she carried a complement of 168. Her main battery was of 102 mm (4.0 in) calibre.
She served with the Royal Navy as HMS Catterick. She then passed to the Hellenic Navy, serving as HHMS Hastings - ΒΠ Χέιστινγκς from May 1946. She was in commission for 1,178 days of the Second World War. She was decommissioned in 1963.
She was broken up for scrap.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Propulsion
- 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
- 2 shaft Parsons geared turbines, 19000 shp
- Armament
- 4 × QF 4 in Mark XVI guns on twin mounts Mk. XIX
- 4 × QF 2 pdr Mk. VIII (1 × quad mount)
- 3 × 20 mm Oerlikons
- 2 × 21 in torpedo tubes
- 70 depth charges, 4 throwers, 2 racks
Sister ships
Sources
- Facts harvested from HMS Catterick on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.
- Photograph: Royal Navy official photographer — http://media.iwm.org.uk/iwm/mediaLib//7/media-7248/large.jpg This photograph FL 188 comes from the collections of the Imperial War Museums — Public domain — Wikimedia Commons